Augustus Peabody Gardner

Augustus Peabody Gardner ( born November 5, 1865 in Boston, Massachusetts, † January 14, 1918 in Macon, Georgia ) was an American politician. Between 1902 and 1917 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Augustus Gardner was the uncle of Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. He attended St. Paul 's School in Concord (New Hampshire) and then studied until 1886 at Harvard University. At the same university he studied law, but without ever working as a lawyer. Instead, he managed his extensive estate. During the Spanish- American War he served as a captain on the staff of General James H. Wilson. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party. In the years 1900 and 1901 he sat in the Massachusetts Senate.

Following the resignation of Mr William H. Moody Gardner was at the due election for the sixth seat of Massachusetts as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 4 November 1902. After eight elections he could remain until his resignation on 15 May 1917 at the Congress. From 1905 to 1909 he was chairman of the Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions. During his time in Congress, the 16th and the 17th Amendment to the Constitution were ratified.

Gardner's resignation took place after the American entry into the First World War. He joined again the United States Army and was stationed in a training camp in Macon. There he died on 14 January 1918.

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